SHACK15 resident Sparrho, a platform leveraging Artificial Intelligence to help researchers discover relevant science publications, has raised $3 million (£2.3m) in a pre-Series A round led by White Cloud Capital. It is understood that the fresh round of cash will be used to fuel further product development. The London-based company, founded in 2013 by EF alum […]

Alphabet-owned DeepMind has struck a deal with Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, which will now start using the AI lab’s healthcare app Streams in Musgrove Park Hospital. The contract follows similar, controversial partnerships with the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and the Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust, which have adopted Streams to spot signs of […]

Facebook has revealed its approach to removing terrorist-related content, as the social network faces increasing criticism over tackling the bane of extremism on its platform. In a detailed post published on its blog, the company explained its formula to tackle terror-related material, using a blend of human supervision and artificial intelligence. “We want Facebook to be […]

Apple CEO Tim Cook has detailed the company’s plans to enter the self-driving car sector, Bloomberg revealed. The rumour has been circulating for a while that the iPhone maker’s next big project would involved driverless vehicles, but the company’s management had so far been peculiarly cagey about the feat. Late last year, it emerged that when Apple kicked-started the […]

There is a 50 percent chance that artificial intelligence will grow capable to best human beings in virtually every field within 45 years, a survey of 352 AI experts reveals. According to the New Scientist, a survey carried out jointly by the University of Oxford and Yale University among leading researchers in the field has returned the […]

Apple is looking to embed a new home-brewed processor dedicated to Artificial Intelligence in its handsets, Bloomberg has reported. The business outlet spoke with an unnamed source who revealed that the Cupertino-based giant is hard at work on a chip— known as the Apple Neural Engine— which would improve Apple devices’ performance on tasks such as speech […]

Processor manufacturer Graphcore revealed to have received an investment from multinational computer tech giant Dell, via its venture arm Dell Technologies Capital. Dell had already backed the Bristol-based startup in its £25 million Series A round in October 2016— together with corporate investors Bosch and Samsung and VC firms Amadeus, Foundation, Pitango, Draper Esprit and C4 […]